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FOFA levels playing field: ANZ Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... is incumbent on firms like ours to lift their standards and ensure the education people are getting is absolutely first class," said Barrett. "We [the retail sector] have acted as a disparate group and that hasn't helped at times. But now we are getting ...

CMC Markets launches new platform

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
CMC Markets has launched its new CMC Tracker platform for Australian investors. The new platform is the result of A$156m of investment over two years and aims to increase CFD trading speed and lower transaction costs. The new platform features increased ...

Super returns crash below 5%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Australian fixed interest 7% and cash 5%. International shares were even worse, losing 2.5% through the year. The asset class differences resulted in not-for-profit funds averaging 5.5% and master trusts 3.2% for a gap between them that is still an incredibly ...

QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
QIC has appointed former Australian Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, to help win more mandates from Asian institutional investors. Raby retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade earlier this month after five years as Ambassador to China ...

ANZ Wealth: phone-based advisers to help with opt-in

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... offerings and how they like to handle their clients. They will then call allocated clients of the firm, such as their B or C class clients and offer them real time financial advice and service in the scaled advice sense, if there is a more holistic need ...

Treasury Group "transformational" year

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... five weeks to date, said he expects 2011 to be a "transformational year" for the group. When looking at its FUM by assets class, McGill said Australian equities were decreasing in their significance to the company over time while alternatives were increasing ...

AFA female adviser award grabs industry attention

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... Richard Klipin, chief executive, AFA. Currently, more than 200 financial advisers and industry professionals have attended the class, hosted by the association's political strategist, Kerry Chikarovski. The winner of the inaugural AFA Female Excellence ...

nabInvest secures US firm stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
National Australia Bank's direct asset management business, nabInvest, has bought up a minority stake in a US global fixed income investment management firm, in a bid to expand its range of asset classes. Peridiem Global Investors, based in Los Angeles ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... bank loans, and mortgages) deemed eligible as collateral. Option 6. "...buy foreign government debt... Potentially, this class of assets offers huge scope for Fed operations, as the quantity of foreign assets eligible for purchase by the Fed is several ...

CFA results are in for 2500 finance professionals

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
More than 2500 Australian investment professionals have now received their results from the June CFA Institute exams, earning global recognition and certification of their skills. The CFA Institute, an international organisation of investment professionals ...